Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-18
SOUTH BUTTE NOTES.

s.. r. Smock left for Melrose Monday
morning to work for Bennett Bros.
South Butte young man went out to
Columbia Gardens Sunday evening and
While there had g. robe and whip stolen
from his buggy.
Seraphim Durand returned from Ruby
Valley Sunday evening.
Charles Nicle, of the Montana Union, is
at Deer Lodge repairing pumps.
Mrs. James Brown and Mrs. George L..
Zimmerman departed Monday evening, for
An extended visit East.
Al. Dill goes to Anaconda tonight.
The Butte Reduction Works nave closed
down temporarily, on account OF the lack
of fuxing ore. In the meantime the
works will undergo q few needed repairs.
A car load of Phil. Best's Milwaukee
beer arrived Monday, consigned to H. l..
Frank. Judging from the extensive ship
ments OF this beverage lately received here,
Butte will not 60 thirsty this summer.
A team attached to a hack made quite a
lively runaway from the depot yesterday
morning.
The Inter Ocean Hotel has been reprinted
throughout aud the front OF the building
adorned with a spacious eranda.
Dick Sharp, machinist at the Montana
Union, has moved his family to South
Butte.
Vacant houses were numerous in South
Butte a few months ago, but desirable ones
are now very scarce.
Frank Haskell withdrew yesterday from
the firm of D. J. Charles q Co.. Dave
Charles succeeds to the business.
Marion McCombs and Arch McOougal
departed Monday morning for a months
prospecting trip in the ~nejghborhood OF
Anaconda and Philipsburg. The wish OF
many friends here is that they may strike
it rich.
There has been a change in the time OF
the arrival and departure of the Helena
mail. The train O leaves at 6:45 p. m.
instead of 7:1O q. M. and arrives here at
$50 a. m.
William Kelly, foreman of the blast fur
mace at the Parrot smelter, and Miss DOan
will be married Thursday morning.
It was reported yesterday chat the clerk
at the Northwestern Hotel was the gentle
man who was upset with a young lady, in
a runaway up town Monday evening. The
report is false however, as Mr.. Burns did
not 60 buggy riding Monday evening.
The Montana Union boys say that VIM.
Facer, the grocer at Garrison, and an old
time engineer, is the most patriotic man
on the line. The stars and stripes are
hoisted above his store almost every day
in the year..
William Gorham was badly scalded at
the Montana Union ~roundhouse Monday
night. While washing the boiler on engine
No. 1913 the plug blew out and the boiling
water covered his hands. face and arms,
burning them terribly. He has suffered
most acute pain, the skin in many places
having fallen from the flesh. He is being
cared for by DR.. Harding at his residence.
Dan Yancy, nephew OF w. T. Shirley,
who came here last December, left yester-
day morning for his former home in White
Sulphur Springs, NJ. T. Dan will be missed
by the many friends he has made while
here, and especially by the young ladies
who were favored with his acquaintance.
C. H. Prescott, master mechanic of the
Ceur d'Alene Railway & Navigation CON-
pany, wasin South Butte yesterday. He
visited the railroad shops and purchased
a Baldwin engine OF the Utah Northern
company, to be used in the building of the
above road. The engine will have quite a
varied trip before arriving at it's destina-
ton. 1t will be loaded on a fat car here
and sent to Hauser Junction. w. T., where
it will be transferred and sent to Ceur
d'Alene City. From there the trip to Old
Catholic Mission is made on a boat, and
from thence by rail to Warden. where it
will be used ut the front. Mr.. Prescott de-
parted yesterday for his home in Old Mis-
sion, Idaho Territory.
The TACT that the South Butte base ball
club covered themselves with glory (?)
Sunday has excited the envy of their for
mer antagonists, the railroad club. A
movement is on foot to reorganize and an
initiate the Dudes" The nine will be
composed OF the following members: Free
a Howe, shortstop; Tom Malice, first
base; John j. Burns, second base; Ben
johnson. third base; Ben Hoskins, center
field; Theo Larsan. left field; Cornelius
Kane, right field; s. S. Miller, pitcher; A. H.
Hazlett, catcher. They will average about
hundred pounds each and will be
known al the Heavy Weights" Every
one in the nine is warranted to stop a bail
when it comes his way.